Donald H. Parkerson

About

Don Parkerson is a social historian interested in the lives of the common folk in the past. He is Professor of History and Distinguished Professor of Teaching. He is the author of The Agricultural Transition in New York State (Iowa State University Press, 1995) and with Jo Ann Parkerson The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside (Mellen Press, 1998) and Transitions in American Education: A Social History of Teaching (Routledge/Falmer Press, 2001) and The American Teacher (Routledge Press, 2008). His articles have appeared in Historical Methods, Social Science History and Journal of Family History. He was the Assistant Director of the Family and Community History Center at the Newberry Library in Chicago, has served on the Board of Editors for Social Science History and was the Program Chair for their 2001 meetings in Chicago. He teaches Introduction to American History 1865-Present, the Senior Seminar in History, Quantitative Methods for Historians and the Graduate Seminar Jefferson, Jackson and the Atlantic World.

Courses Offered

HIST 1051: American History Since 1877
HIST 2012: American Business History
HIST 4000: Senior Seminar in History
HIST 5950/51: Quantitative Methods for Historians
HIST 6030: Seminar Jefferson, Jackson and the Atlantic World